Red Cross kicks off annual transport of Druse farmers’ fruit across the border.

It appears that products under the Yerei’im shechita of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita will be offered for sale in Shefa Shuk, in the coming weeks before Pesach. This some view will deliver a serious blow to boycott efforts against the supermarket chain owned by Dudi Weissman. A number of weeks ago, Hamodia reported that Rav [...]

Albany, NY – The superintendent of the New York State Police announces he is retiring. Superintendent Harry Corbitt sat down today with News 10 for an exclusive conversation. “Yes, I plan to enter back into retirement,” Corbitt said. “I’m looking forward to it, and so effective tomorrow I will be retired from the New York State [...]

Long Island, NY – Four police departments, two helicopters, one plane and dozens of plows teamed up to get a Long Island woman to her liver transplant surgery – just in the nick of time. Cancer patient Maryann (Mack) Steinbock’s doctor called late Thursday night to tell his patient her year of waiting was over. A [...]

Addressing loyalists in a Monday night TV broadcast, Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah criticized the silence of the world’s Muslim community, demanding a more vocal outcry over Israel’s decision to include Kever Rachel and the Machpelah on its list of national heritage sites, with the terrorist leader referring to the sites as areas “holy to [...]

Brooklyn, NY -Brooklyn, NY – VIN News has confirmed with the board of elections that Avraham Solomon Tischler has been removed from the ballot for the upcoming City Council elections in Brooklyn’s 44th district. After four different challenges, the board of elections invalidated approximately 800 of Tischler’s signatures, leaving him with an insufficient number of signatures [...]

[EXCLUSIVE YWN PHOTO LINK BELOW - TAKEN SHUSHAN PURIM] Boro Park, Brooklyn – YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of the Toldos Shmuel Rebbe, Hamekubal Rav Shmuel Toiseg ZATZAL of a sudden heart attack a short while ago. A resident of Yerushalayim, Rav Toiseg was visiting NYC for Purim, and had even attended the [...]

New York – Unclaimed refunds totaling more than $87 million are awaiting 76,700 New Yorkers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2006, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday. To collect the money, a return for 2006 must be filed no later than Thursday, April 15, 2010. The IRS estimates that the median [...]

London – The Jewish Museum in London is gearing up for its public opening on March 17 and staff are working behind the scenes to get the ambitious £10 million project finished. The original museum has tripled in size by expanding into a 19th century piano factory at the rear of the building, allowing the museum [...]

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says Governor David Paterson should resign if a damaging new report about his administration is true. Gillibrand was appointed a little more than a year ago by Paterson to be New York’s junior senator. But, with mounting allegations against her political patron, Gillibrand is talking tough. Speaking with NY1 political reporter Michael Scotto on “Inside [...]